Were You an Overanxious Child?

Overanxious Disorder

I spent much of my childhood obsessively worrying over one thing or another, and this is not uncommon among those who have suffered childhood trauma. Indeed, many children who have experienced high levels of stress during their early lives may be so badly affected by it that they develop a condition known as OVERANXIOUS DISORDER, and it is this that I want to examine in this article.

Young people who have overanxious disorder, on average, start to develop it at around the age of thirteen-and- a- half years. It affects both males and females in equal numbers. To be diagnosed with the disorder, the young person needs to have at least 4 of the following symptoms, and, furthermore, these symptoms need to have persisted for at least 6 months.

POSSIBLE SYMPTOMS OF OVERANXIOUS DISORDER :

– excessive and intense worry about future events which do not objectively warrant it

– obsessive concerns about past behaviours which are clearly out of proportion to whatever happened

– extreme concern about own competence/extreme need to excel/perfectionism (relating to many area eg. sports, school work etc.)